Nat'l Review: "Boys using Easy-Bake ovens" were the problem at Sandy Hook. [View all]

[kpete]

I am, however, blaming our culture that denies, dismisses, and denigrates the masculine traits—including size, strength, male aggression and a male facility for strategic thinking–that until recently have been viewed as essential for building a society and protecting its weaker members. We now have Hanna Rosin at Slate urging parents to buy their little boys Easy Bake ovens so they’ll be more like little girls. Women are less aggressive by instinct, and they are typically trained to be nice. I praised and continue to praise the courage of the Sandy Hook principal, Dawn Hochsburg, and the teachers who gave up their lives along with her, but with some men on the scene who knew what to do, some of those lives might have been saved.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/336275/newtown-my-critics-charlotte-allen#
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/12/21/1172679/-National-Review-Boys-using-Easy-Bake-ovens-were-the-problem-at-Sandy-Hook